{"id":232231,"date":"2025-07-02T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232231\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:42:11","slug":"germany-gives-go-ahead-for-gas-drilling-in-protected-north-sea-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232231\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Gives Go-Ahead for Gas Drilling in Protected North Sea Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Germany has given the green light for drilling as much as 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas at a protected marine site in the North Sea in a controversial step to bolster energy security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The cabinet approved a bilateral agreement with the Netherlands on hydrocarbon deposits off the island of Borkum, according to a statement from economy minister Katherina Reiche. Explorer One-Dyas BV had already received approval from local authorities a year ago, but Reiche\u2019s predecessor Robert Habeck \u2014 a Green politician \u2014 had been delaying national approval due to environmental considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany has given the green light for drilling as much as 13 billion cubic meters of natural gas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2574,18038,3975,2000,299,91144,1824,11670,2441,1477,517,12348,332,53],"class_list":{"0":"post-232231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-climate-neutrality","10":"tag-energy-security","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-generic-1st-ng-future","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-netherlands","18":"tag-north-sea","19":"tag-robert-habeck","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114784170436712988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}